Workday Absence and Time Tracking Consultant
Role overview
Albida is looking for a Workday Absence and Time Tracking Consultant to lead configuration, design, and delivery for clients running or implementing these modules. You'll work directly with client stakeholders — HR, payroll, and operations leaders — to translate business requirements into working Workday solutions.
What you'll do
- Lead discovery sessions to capture absence and time tracking requirements across client organisations
- Configure Workday Absence Management: accrual rules, eligibility rules, absence plans, and calendars
- Configure Workday Time Tracking: time entry templates, time calculations, overtime rules, and scheduling
- Design and build integrations between Time Tracking, Absence, and downstream Payroll
- Run workshops, prototype reviews, and UAT sessions with client teams
- Produce functional specifications, configuration workbooks, and test scripts
- Troubleshoot production issues and recommend fixes within Workday best practice
- Support go-live and hypercare phases, including data validation and cutover planning
- Mentor junior consultants and contribute to Albida's delivery methodology
What you'll bring
- 3+ years' hands-on Workday configuration experience in Absence Management and/or Time Tracking
- At least one full lifecycle implementation (design through go-live)
- Strong understanding of accrual calculations, overtime rules, and complex scheduling patterns
- Experience gathering requirements directly from client stakeholders, not just internal teams
- Comfortable working across multiple concurrent client engagements
- Clear written and verbal communication — you'll be presenting to executive sponsors
- Workday Pro Certification in Absence Management and/or Time Tracking preferred
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
Skills Required
- 3+ years of hands-on Workday configuration experience in Absence Management and/or Time Tracking
- At least one full lifecycle implementation from design through go-live
- Strong understanding of accrual calculations, overtime rules, and complex scheduling patterns
- Experience gathering requirements directly from client stakeholders
- Ability to work across multiple concurrent client engagements
- Clear written and verbal communication, including presenting to executive sponsors
- Workday Pro Certification in Absence Management and/or Time Tracking
What We Do
Albida is a business-transformation consultancy focused on helping organisations maximise their Workday investment. It provides expert services across HR, finance, and payroll processes, including advisory, implementation, consultant talent, and application management. Since 2018, Albida has supported clients throughout the Workday lifecycle, combining operating-model design, hands-on collaboration, industry expertise, and practical delivery to achieve measurable, lasting results for growing and global organisations.
